ONE HUNDRED SHERDS. CHILIA-MILITARI CULTURE RELOADED. ALEXANDRIA POTTERY CASE Abstract: Preparing themselves for field survey alongLimes Transalutanus, Eugen S. Teodor the authors are looking for references – other than book descriptions and drawings – concerning the so-called Chilia-Militari culture, laying on the both Romanian National History Museum,
[email protected] sides of the Roman frontier, stretching from the second half of the second century up to the late third (or early fourth) century. After several attempts with pottery contained in exhibitions, they finally reached an unprocessed lot Alexandru Bădescu of pot sherds from a recent digging on the by-pass route north of Alexandria Romanian National History Museum, city.
[email protected] Interested first of all in fabrication issues, in order to successfully deal with fragmentary pottery, they fill a database with notes, photos and drawings, and Constantin Haită make a typology sustained by petrography. The distribution of artefacts on Romanian National History Museum, functional types – as uncertain as it is – shows a society thinking and living
[email protected] ‘big’, speaking either of tableware, liquid containers or storage vessels. Beyond shrds, shapes, colours and sizes, there is a flagrant ambiguity of a ‘barbarian’ culture born at the fringes of the empire, part inside and part outside, cooking Roman but drinking as Dacians did, setting the table for the Gothic feast. Keywords: pottery, fabrication, fine ware, coarse pottery, storage containers. THE FRAME he state of art of the so-called Chilia-Militari Culture lays today about where it was three decades earlier, when Gheorghe Bichir Twas publishing his monograph (1984).